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Thick as Thieves – Meet the Menzingers

Celebrating self-expression is in ’47’s DNA, and music is one of the greatest avenues for it. As regulars of the Boston Calling Music Festival, every year we look forward to meeting artists and fans in our own backyard for one of the best gatherings...

Pratt Institute x ’47 Redesign 2018

Introduced last year, ’47 Redesign is a platform for designers to reinterpret ’47’s licensed sportswear. For the second consecutive year we invaded Pratt Institute’s “Deconstruct/Reconstruct” course, offering design students an opportunity to resusc...

Rock Chalk Jayhawk

In 1891, basketball’s first rulebook was born in Springfield, Massachusetts where instructor James Naismith was tasked with creating a game that could keep rambunctious young athletes at bay. A soccer ball and a couple peach baskets later, Naismith’s...

70 Years Later

Millions of people have shuffled through those Fenway streets in Boston since 1947, where Arthur and Henry D’Angelo first started peddling sports memorabilia to Red Sox fans, loud and proud from their stacked sales vessel. Most of those people come a...

’47 Fenway Is Here

The year was 1947. The green monster was being painted its namesake color. The Red Sox were playing their 47th year as a franchise. Electrified by the fandom and prideful city they now called home, twelve-year-old twin D’Angelo br...